I can’t get off my mind of how long I got left.

Sorry about not hitting send yesterday.  I had a feeling that i had forgotten and here i am confirming that thought so again sorry and I hope you like the e-mail

Hey everybody!!!  So it seems like I can’t get off my mind of how long I got left.  Left and right I am hearing it somewhere from somebody, kind of funny actually that so many people know how much longer I have left. Well I have 5 weeks left about and time is going by pretty fast.  It's pretty hard to believe that I only have that much time left.  The other week we had a get to know the president.  As we were going around introducing ourselves I was asked how long I have left and I told them "o I go home next month, Waite no.....ya next month."  It was pretty funny actually when I though about it, I actually had to think to make sure that I was correct :)

Anyway enough about that, this past week has been normal for this area.  It was pretty slow though, honestly I don’t understand why, but I think it had a lot to do with the fact that transfers were this past week even though I’m staying in my area.  It was really quite weird actually and kind of annoying, but thing, like I said above, have picked back up and time is going as fast as ever.  We were able to help Tim on a bathroom that Bro. Scherrer is redoing in his home.   The first time we did this was a while ago and we were able to be the demo team which was a lot of fun :).  Before when we were helping Tim out on a different home he found out that I was really good at cutting, making the lines strait and making a really good fit, so he asked if i would cut the tile for him and I said sure.  We were there for about 2 hours I think and the tile looks really good :).  With Bro Moore i was able to change some blades on his lawn mower that somebody put on upside down.  It was cool seeing as i have never done that before and i found it pretty interesting.  It's funny to see how people change over a period of time and now i can understand why my dad wanted to teach me these kind of things, mainly because I’ll probably have to use it one of these days....I probably should have paid more attention and been more willing to go with him ;) haha o well i still got some time to learn :).  As for Bro. Artibani we helped him set a new place to put his wood and started stacking it there.  All in all it was a really good week when it comes to service opportunities.  As for other things, the work here is still very slow, that’s alright though.  Just keeping a good attitude is all you can do and make the most of things :) well I hope you all have a wonderful week!

-- Love

Elder Camron Foust

6 weeks to go‏

Well I thought this time would never come yet I knew it would.  It's been a quick two years and in just a short 6 weeks I will be seeing all of you once again!  This week has been a weird one, but a good one.  It's been one of those weeks when odd things happened, but not necessarily bad things :).  So on Thursday I went on Tours with E. Bloomfield (the greenie) and he came here with me in Bristol.  It was a good tour even though all we did was help somebody move.  Well we were supposed to help that person move in at 330 but we soon found out that things had been going wrong all day for them and his wife was still about 2 hours away.  So we decided that we should go visit some members while we were waiting and went and did that.  When we got back she was still about 30 minutes out so we helped the member get a couch out of their house that the past tenet left behind.  Once we got that over with the truck finally arrived!  So we started to get that unpacked.  Well it was around 9 when we decided to call it because we were having complications.  We decided that we would resume at 630 the next morning and get everything out of the truck so the members could take the truck back before 10 so they wouldn't get an additional charge on the rent.  Well that’s exactly what we did and around 9AM we finally had everything unloaded and ya :) it was a long few hours but everything got done.  They had a 26ft long truck PACKED and there were only 3 of us helping out so ya it took a while, but it was good.  We have been trying to get a lesson with a person named Jakie.  Her daughter is a RC of a couple years I think and she is currently at BYU.  We recently got this information from the Avon elders.  We will hopefully have a lesson with her either this week or next week.  Well I think that’s all I got for now :) O ya I’m staying in Bristol till I come home so ya :) love you all!

-- Love

Elder Camron Foust

Another transfer already?‏

Hello everybody, so this week has been pretty good.  First of all we got a new mission president as of today!  That is kind of exciting and different as well :).  We will be able to seem them tomorrow actually and get to know the new presidents family a little bit.  Friday was a good day for my district.  We were asked to go up and help with the Youth conference up in Goshen and it was a blast.  At about 10AM we were asked to make an appearance to the youth and they asked a couple of us to bear testimony of serving a mission.  So we had E. Ficklin and E. Bloomfield to give theirs.  The reason why we chose them is because Fricklin goes home in 2 weeks and Bloomfield has only been out for 4 weeks so it was pretty cool to get both ends of the spectrum out to the youth.  Afterword’s we had lunch and then went out to "The Market Place".  It was pretty fun.  This was set up to be in the time of Jerusalem type of thing.  Some of the missionaries were roman soldiers and tax collector.  Pretty much they got to pick on the youth and make them pay their taxes :) it was pretty fun.  As for Saturday we went and helped a member who is, moving from the Hartford ward to our ward, move in.  All we did was unload the Uhal truck, but it was a good time.  After words we went over to Bro Scherrer's house and helped out with his bathroom that he is redoing.  It's a pretty good thing that I did a couple of those with my dad or I would have no idea what the heck was going on.  As it is though I understand what it going on for the most part though I still have much to learn in that respect.  I've forgotten a lot as well, but I believe that it will come back pretty quick as I start working with my dad once again.  Lastly we went and helped Bro Artibani as usual.  We pulled out some stumps that were in some other person’s yard and had a good time.  He ended up taking us to an ice cream place and I got Cake Batter like I normally do :).  So this week was pretty good I should say I hope you all had a great one as well!!!

-- Love

Elder Camron Foust

Yet another week‏

Hello there everybody!  Sorry if there was another e-mail that just said this same thing but I believe that I sent that by accident.  Anyway this week has again once been filled with service and a little bit of minor teaching :).  We did the same old service projects this week with the same people.  We were able to finish the rock walk way for Sis dea on Saturday and it turned out pretty decent considering all we had for tools were our hands and shovels, so ya we did the best we could with that :) ill be sure to get some pictures so you all can see what it looks like.  As for Bor Artibani we were able to help him finish up some wood that needed to be spited, and this coming Saturday we will be able to help him move some things around outside (pertaining to wood) and stuff like that :) at some point we will start helping him with his deck that he wants to extend a little bit so that should be fun, hopefully I’m still around when that happens :).  Sunday evening rite after church we were able to talk to this lady named jakie if I remember rite.  Her daughter is a convert of I’m not sure how long and she wanted to talk with us.  So we got a hold of her yesterday and answered a lot of her questions, hopefully we will be able to start teaching her here soon :) that would be great.  Other than that though it has been pretty slow.  We were able to get a couple referrals this past week and we will be stopping by them this week in hopes that one of them will want to be taught by us and keep us a bit busier then we have been :) anyway I hope you all have a great week!

-- Love

Elder Camron Foust

3 weeks in‏

Well what do you know, we are already 3 weeks into the new transfer and E. Foust JR is getting moved :).  It's kinda funny to think that every 3 weeks something happens, or I guess could happen with the Foust boys who are out on a mission.  That must be pretty intense for some of you back home :D. Well enough about that now to tell you about the week that I had.  Well to say the least all we did this week was service.  We had barely any teaching appointments but it was good doing service.  Really we did all the normal service plus some I guess you could say.  It just feels like all we did this week was help other people out with things they need to get done and it was really nice :).  We were able to help brother artibani for a while on Saturday and get a lot of little things that he needed to get done that he has needed to get done for a very long time I guess and he was great full for that.  Wednesday we were able to help Sis Dea out again with the walk way and it is almost done :) we should be finishing that up this week either tomorrow or on Thursday so that is exciting.  With bro Moore on Tuesday we cleaned up some of the garden bed that his wife has been wanting to eat cleaned up for about 3 y ears or so ;) that’s what she told us anyway haha so we got that done for her and some odd end stuff as well for brother Moore.  As for the rest of the week, well we did small things here and there.  We went out street contacting here and there and stuff like that, but really no success.  I really enjoy helping out the other people and hopefully leave a good impression and hope that other people will be watching and start asking questions.  Well that’s about it for this week :) hope you all have a good one!

-- Love

Elder Camron Foust

Baptism!‏

So this last Saturday we had the baptism for Kaila!!! It went pretty well I guess :) quite smooth for the most part.  Really the only thing that went wrong is the fact that Kaila needed to be baptized 2 times instead of once :) haha.  It was pretty funny, once I dunked her for the first time I looked over at her feet and there was a ripple so I was like alright we need to do it again!  So we did and got it done :).  Both talks were great and the confirmation yesterday was awesome.  This past week has been pretty good I would say.  We were able to help bro Artibani with some wood again and that went well and was kind of nice.  Tuesday we went to Bro Moore for the fist time this transfer and we went and cut some wood up with a chainsaw.  So this is the first area that anybody has ever asked me to use one of those.  Thanks to my dad using them all the time while I was growing up, I  was able to recall what my dad did and I did exactly as I remember watching him do and ya know what, everything went quite smooth :) funny how watching our parents do stuff helps us throughout our lives.  Other then that though nothing really different.  On Thursday I was with E. Berlin from the Glastinbury ward, and well all I’m going to say is that it was a rough 24 hours for me to say the least.  Well lets see what else to talk about.  I really think that's going to be it for this week :) I hope you all have a good one!

-- Love

Elder Camron Foust

Well im a District Leader now....

Hello everybody, so as you can see in the title I am not a DL.  This call came Wednesday night at around 10 P.M. and President Evans asked if I would be the DL well i accepted and here I am now doing that job.  Nothing really too different, I just now plan DM and go out exchanges and do the call in reports so ya its all good I guess.  So this week was pretty normal.  With the new comp though things are at a slow start only because I need to get use to the way my new comp does things :) it's always like that when I get a new comp so things will be 100% normal by the end of the week.  Anyway I wish I had a lot to tell this week but I really don’t.  Though I do have to tell that Kaila is going to be baptized this coming Saturday and that is a joy :) she asked if I would baptize her and I will be doing that on Saturday at 10 AM :) well i hope you all have a great week talk to you later.

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Love

Elder Camron Foust